518 Decorative Arts: Design since 1860

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211 GLASGOW SCHOOL WHITE METAL AND ENAMELLED PENDANT, CIRCA 1900 of slender tapering form chased with a design of opposed peacocks perched on a stylised tree with green enamel panels and set with turquoise cabochon stones, with corresponding heart-shaped pendant drops 11cm long, with drop 17cm long Literature: Vallance, Aymer, Mourey, Gabriel, et al ‘Art Nouveau Jewellery & Fans’, p. 87 illus. pictured right. Burkhauser, Jude (edit.) ‘Glasgow Girls’, Edinburgh 1990, p. 179, fig. 241 and 242 Note: This pendant in its form and execution demonstrates awareness of the symbolist jewellery being produced in Glasgow at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, especially by Francis and Margaret Macdonald. The known work of the sisters is mainly figurative rather than in this example which shows opposed birds, a motif more commonly associated with artists such as Talwin Morris.

£2,000-3,000

212 MANNER OF JAMES HERBERT MACNAIR WHITE METAL AND COPPER BELT BUCKLE, CIRCA 1905 of elliptical outline, with applied planished grille decoration, apparently unmarked 10cm across Literature: ‘Modern Design in Jewellery & Fans’, The Studio magazine supplement, 1901/2, plate 23b for a brooch by MacNair with similar characteristics, pictured right.

£500-700


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